Sad if true, and I hope it's not

[cleolinda]

Erin of Project Download passed away yesterday? All I knew was that she deleted the LJ comm several months ago with no explanation and disappeared--does anyone know what happened?

ETA: We've confirmed it.

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[senshikittie.livejournal.com]

ZOMG, what year did you graduate? I'm a Reidland kid (2003) (WKU 2007), myself, though I lay claim to my years at St. Mary, as well. Mostly because I never got into the Farley vs. Reidland battles that went on in the school. It was easier to say "I'm catholic" and watch all the kids back away because of what their WASP parents told them about catholics. :D

[calliopes_pen]

I graduated in 1999--everyone ended up on the football field for graduation, because they feared something like Columbine was going to happen. Bomb threats.

I think I graduated PCC (now called West Kentucky Community and Technical College--they renamed it after I graduated) in...early 2002, maybe? Sounds about right, anyway, since about a month after I was in the hospital for 3 days, and it's been almost 6 years since that.

And I take it you also managed to make it through the ice storm in one piece?

[senshikittie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Warren County didn't get hit too hard. Some power outages and icy roads. I tried to deliver mail that Tuesday and nearly slid off into a ravine... That was something I never want to repeat. >.>

[calliopes_pen]

McCracken County, here. Here, everything was basically solid ice--took down all four of our trees. Including one that fell on the roof over my room, and over the course of three days slowly slid a little further over the edge. One tree was over 100 years old, and just...shattered. That's the only way to describe it.

We tried to get out to Kentucky Oaks Mall, in the hopes that they would have heat (we went 4 days without power, and I was in stage 1 hypothermia from what I figured out later). There were only four hotels with power, and they were completely filled--including floor space. We apparently left right as the national guard made it out there. We missed them by minutes.

[senshikittie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was a bit freaked out since I couldn't get a hold of my parents or sister who are both still in McCracken. Then I thought I'd be clever and send them a piece of snail mail (I mean, I got out and risked my life for people's mail... the thought was the post office there would, too.) ...But, no, they got the piece like a few days after they got power back. They were only without for about a day.

[calliopes_pen]

We were without power for 4 1/2 days. I do know that some people had signs out in their front yards, saying how many days it had been--there was at least one person that was without for 22 days.

Yeah, getting the mail after the power came back sounds about right. We didn't have mail service either until a few days after we got power back. They tried to sort mail by candlelight, but it just didn't work, and too many people were getting frostbite.

When UPS finally drove by one day, we knew things were getting back to normal. *laughs*